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Neos Zygos

Neos Zygos is a village in the Kavala regional unit of Greece.

The place

Neos Zygos is a village in the Kavala regional unit of Greece. It was created in the 1990s with a government grant for the housing of returned Pontic Greek expatriates from the Soviet Union. Between 1990 and 1993, 110 families were settled there. It was recognized as a settlement in 1991 as part of the community of Zygos. As part of the Kapodistrias reform, it became part of the municipality of Filippoi in 1997. Since the implementation of the 2010 Kallikratis Programme, together with Zygos, it constitutes the municipal community of Zygos which belongs to the municipal unit of Filippoi of the municipality of Kavala. According to the 2021 census it has a population of 365 inhabitants. Neos Zygos is located 12 km northwest of Kavala at an altitude of 99 meters above sea level. It is built near and west of the National Road 12, between the villages of Zygos (south), Palaia Kavala (southwest), Amygdaleona (north) and Polystylo (east).

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Getting to Neos Zygos

Airports
Kavala Alexander the Great (KVA), 22 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 127 km · Thessaloniki Macedonia (SKG), 129 km
  • Thessaloniki → Neos Zygos
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €15–21
  • Spata-Artemida → Neos Zygos
    339 km · quickest by air, 4h 1m · €110–170
  • Kerkyra (Corfu) → Neos Zygos
    407 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · €140–400
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Neos Zygos. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt is possible to reach it by ferry from Lemnos, and several other north Aegean islands.
  • Get inWith a bit of careful planning, or aimless wandering, it is possible to reach Kavala from almost any Greek island with a ferry via other islands.
  • Go nextThassos can be visited as a day trip from Kavala, but it is worth to spend several days there.
  • Go nextXanthi: famous for its carnival and picturesque Old Town Lemnos and Agios Efstratios Island: Reachable by ferry boat from Kavala.
  • Go nextReachable by ferry boat via Alexandroupolis Nestos: About 30 km east of Kavala lies the nature reserve of the Nestos river, an area of unique natural beauty and wildlife Serres & Serres (region) is a provincial town on the way to Bulgaria.

From Wikivoyage: Kavala, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    36 km
  2. 02
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    92 km
  3. 03
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    154 km
  4. 04
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    402 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    447 km

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  • Zygostown in Greece3.5 km